[gentoo-dev] Re: New ebuild metadata to mark how robust the package is?

2009-10-17 Thread Duncan
Patrick Lauer posted on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:53:39 +0200 as excerpted: > On Saturday 17 October 2009 01:29:00 Daniel Bradshaw wrote: >> Some packages, like findutils, are pretty robust and generally just get >> on with working. >> Other packages, like apache and ssh, need are more fragile and need

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: USE=qa-test

2009-10-17 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:30:20 +0400 Peter Volkov wrote: > В Срд, 14/10/2009 в 22:12 -0600, Ryan Hill пишет: > > On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:11:14 +0200 > > Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: > > > > > Sorry for reviving an old thread, but was there any progress on this > > > topic? > > > A week isn't old. ;)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: USE=qa-test

2009-10-17 Thread Peter Volkov
В Срд, 14/10/2009 в 22:12 -0600, Ryan Hill пишет: > On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:11:14 +0200 > Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: > > > Sorry for reviving an old thread, but was there any progress on this > > topic? > A week isn't old. ;) I'll add it once the flu and homework let up for a > minute. Why don't

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: media-libs/libmpcdec

2009-10-17 Thread Samuli Suominen
# Samuli Suominen (17 Oct 200) # Obsolete Musepack SV7 format support. Install # media-sound/musepack-tools for libs and tools to convert # your audio files to SV8 format. media-libs/libmpcdec Useless library (and now oprhaned), you won't be able to decode anything newly encoded files with it. m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite (part 1): KDE3-only applications that won't build when KDE4 is installed

2009-10-17 Thread Samuli Suominen
Peter Volkov wrote: > В Птн, 16/10/2009 в 23:09 +0300, Samuli Suominen пишет: >> # Samuli Suominen (16 Oct 2009) >> # Fails to build with KDE4 installed wrt bug #277427. >> # Masked for removal in 30 days. >> net-news/eventwatcher >> kde-misc/kisdnwatch > ... >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite (part 1): KDE3-only applications that won't build when KDE4 is installed

2009-10-17 Thread Peter Volkov
В Птн, 16/10/2009 в 23:09 +0300, Samuli Suominen пишет: > # Samuli Suominen (16 Oct 2009) > # Fails to build with KDE4 installed wrt bug #277427. > # Masked for removal in 30 days. > net-news/eventwatcher > kde-misc/kisdnwatch ... > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279823 Does kde team chan

Re: [gentoo-dev] New ebuild metadata to mark how robust the package is?

2009-10-17 Thread Petteri Räty
Tobias Klausmann wrote: > > Come to think of it, how about an ewarn/einfo that is only > triggered on fresh installs, but not on upgrades? You can still > warn that foobard needs an etc-update and a restart, but I don't > need to be reminded where the examples are every time. > > Ideally, one wou

Re: [gentoo-dev] New ebuild metadata to mark how robust the package is?

2009-10-17 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Rémi Cardona wrote: > Now we (gentoo devs) are finally starting to add news items for > bigger updates (gnome, X, java, etc) and that's a good thing. > But we definitely cannot and should not use news items for > minor upgrades. > > elog is much better suited for such up

Re: [gentoo-dev] New ebuild metadata to mark how robust the package is?

2009-10-17 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Saturday 17 October 2009 01:29:00 Daniel Bradshaw wrote: > Some packages, like findutils, are pretty robust and generally just get on > with working. > Other packages, like apache and ssh, need are more fragile and need plenty > of configuration. That's almost completely user-side configuration